Book record
Lucebert
Lucebert
Translated from Dutch by Diane Butterman
Lucebert, translated from the Dutch by Diane Butterman, brings Lucebert's Dutch-language work into English through Green Integer. Published in 2017, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. This volume of Lucebert feels like an encounter with a poet who distrusts smoothness, and who lets the lyric scrape, joke, stumble, and flare. I would begin with the poem itself: the image that refuses to behave, the phrase that gives the page a new temperature, the pressure of voice moving from one language into another. Good translated poetry does not only deliver information about Netherlands. It changes the reader's sense of what English can hold, which makes this volume both a literary record and a readerly invitation.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Green Integer
- Language
- Dutch
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISBN
- 9781557134349